Yeah, I'm with you guys as well.  I like the idea of a showy garage, but in the end I work in my garage.  I don't have time to put plywood under jack stands and all that stuff.  The drawing point of my garage is what's in them, not the garage itself. 

MS wrote:

The HOA requires it to be same stucco construction as my house, so I hired a custom homebuilder to do a turn-key job and hand me a completed building except for insulation, drywall and interior wiring.  They will wire in a 100 amp SqD breaker box and I will do the distribution wiring.  100 amp is the most I could get since I am 250 feet from the main transformer and it is shared with my house.  It will have to do.  All LED lighting and two HVAC mini split units totaling 3.5 tons will be installed. That plus a couple of welder plugs and a 6hp compressor.
26 x 30 garage and a 20 x 22 gameroom that also can park a car inside if needed.  2x6 stud construction with 12’ ceiling in the garage and 12’ vaulted ceiling in the gameroom. Even has an 8 x 20 porch where the “289 GRILL” will be located.
I know 26x30 seems minimalistic, but this thing is freaking expensive to build around here, so I had to be budget conscious.  Plus I did not want to remove any more oak trees than I had to.  I already have a three car garage with a four post lift, so the new one is just a big workshop and enough room for four more spaces, one big enough for my boat, should I ever get tired of taking things apart. The garage will have a wash sink, the gameroom will have fridge and sink and dishwasher, plus a restroom with a sink and the requisite poop pot.  My old Olhausen 8’ pool table will provide for gameroom entertainment along with an 84” OLED TV.  The gameroom has a sectional aluminum framed 8’ door with double insulated glass in all the panels, like you see in some restaurants.

I am looking forward to sitting back and letting someone else do the hard part  Then I wire it and hire some company to insulate and sheetrock it.  Still looking at options for floor coating. What have you guys used?  I know coupedaddy’s new house has a really fancy garage floor.

All that for only a little more than 3x what I paid for my first house.

Love it Steve!! Retirement is looking mighty fine.